EPA Restricts Use of Potato Fungicide, Dismisses Petition for All-Out Ban

July 28th, 2012 - Jill Ettinger

Pesticide

Last week, the EPA announced new regulations on use of the fungicide, chlorpyrifos, a known toxin commonly used on potato crops. The new ruling will lower the allowable applications and the restrictions will be on product labels later this year, the agency reports in a statement released on the EPA website.

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